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▪ I. † benefact, n. Obs.—0.
[ad. L. benefactum: see benefit.]
‘A good deed or benefit.’ Blount Glossogr. 1656.
▪ II. benefact, v.|ˈbɛnɪfækt|
[Back-formation f. benefactor.]
trans. To help or endow as a benefactor.
[1594O. B. Questions 3 Whose benefacting..extended chieflie to their supposed children and Paramoures.] 1898E. W. B. Nicholson in Westm. Gaz. 10 June 2/3 Mr. Gladstone..offered to try to get one of the richest men in the world to benefact us. 1923Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 507/2 He did not want to benefact Hamborne in any kind of way. |